Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Much of what the film considers fodder for satire is too familiar to feel revelatory or shocking, while characters that start out believable behave in unrecognizably ludicrous ways simply because the script forces them to.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
[Bullock] has the knack of playing someone who is seriously flawed, yet still appealing for her smarts, her broken heart and her sharp wit.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Like the ruthless political strategists the film both satirizes and celebrates, Our Brand Is Crisis speaks out of both sides of its mouth.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
An excellent supporting cast includes Anthony Mackie and the terrific Ann Dowd as fellow consultants. Yet it all rests on Bullock. She's fun to watch.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
A horror film wrapped in a fast-talking political comedy.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
stumbles over a vast terrain of self-serving scoundrels (Trump trumps anything they can make up), but livewire Bullock never lets hypocrisy out of her comic kill zone.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
The film indulges in the unabashed goofiness that stoked Green's "Pineapple Express," and which Sandra Bullock demonstrated to raucous effect in "The Heat."

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
The overriding message, which certainly isn't new, is that power corrupts and politics is a nasty game not meant for the little people. But in "Crisis," the point is not powerfully made.

Name : Alex Pappademas / Alias : Grantland
It's the first time I've watched a David Gordon Green movie and found myself wishing I was in the capable hands of a set-'em-up-knock-'em-down director like Jay Roach.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In Bullock, "Crisis" has a star who makes the whole thing seem better than it probably is.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
The most important aspects of this striking story have been scrubbed away or laundered into Hollywood-style pseudo-psychological neutrality.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Can Sandra Bullock in top form overcome longtime American audience resistance to comedies about politics and maybe even get another nomination in the process?

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
Green . has little feel for the movie's comic turns, and his way with the drama is held back by his obvious and conventional sympathies.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
For a movie about political messaging, Our Brand Is Crisis doesn't know what it's selling besides Sandra Bullock's lusciously buttery dye job.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
If it's satire, it's neither sharp nor especially funny. Yet it doesn't deliver emotionally, either.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Green and company put an artificial ceiling on the pic's satirical potential. Had they fictionalized the country, "Crisis" could have joined the ranks of "Duck Soup" or "The Mouse That Roared."

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The movie wafts and drones and shifts gears so many times that it is never as funny, pointed, jaundiced or clever as it could have been, and much less politically significant than it should be.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Ultimately, "Our Brand Is Crisis" isn't as hard-hitting, trenchant or angry as it should be.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. Is it money? Power? Ideology? You never find out.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The movie unfortunately gets stuck between edgy drama and broad comedy, and most of the humor lands with a thud, unless animals getting run over or an A-list actress mooning bus passengers get your vote.

Name : John Semley / Alias : Globe and Mail
Say what you will about the sneering, misanthropic political dramas of previous eras (Blow Out, JFK and so on). But at least they came by their cynicism in good faith.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Despite Sandra Bullock's best efforts, she can't make "Our Brand Is Crisis" much more than what it is: A predictable political comedy that hits all the expected beats and goes sappy exactly when you think it will.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Bullock's] role as a weary Machiavelli in sunglasses and trench coat gives her little to work with but a stream of jaded one-liners.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
"Crisis" squanders its intriguing premise.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
The film becomes a Sandra Bullock vehicle, and while it's buoyed by her typical comic aplomb, it loses sight of the bigger picture.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
A slick political dramedy with bursts of personal humor but an overdose of Hollywood gloss .

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
David Gordon Green's latest unpredictable addition to his resume is offbeat and appealing on some levels but is neither as funny nor as trenchant as it might have been.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Here, Green disappears deeper than he ever has before into workmanlike competence; the only personal signature is a funky, slow-mo dance party, which the filmmaker somehow manages to insert into every movie he makes.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Offers some nice behind-the-scenes glimpses of how political sausage is made just as America's political sausage is sizzling on the fire.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but it's still one of the liveliest political black comedies I've seen in a while.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like the politicians and political consultants it mocks, "Our Brand Is Crisis" doesn't completely deliver on what it promises.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Our Brand Is Crisis" is in that annoying category of movie that sends audiences away thinking, "It's almost good, but something is off."

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The movie is funny enough to get its share of laughs but, in its angry heart, it's a tragedy - and the saddest part is that too much of this story is true.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A botched interpretation of the classic story that trades spectacle for coherence.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
It's hard to make the case that any of this means anything, or is even supposed to .

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Who in the world was crying out for a prequel to Peter Pan? And especially in this lumpy, vanilla form .

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
If Pan's screenplay is a lesson in anything, it's that most beloved stories don't require a whole cinematic universe to go along with them.

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
In fashioning a creation myth for Peter Pan, director Joe Wright and writer Jason Fuchs have produced such a thin story that they reduce, rather than amplify, J.M. Barrie's famous characters.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
A hectic and labored attempt to supply the boy who never grew up with an origin story.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
The end suggests there are plans for more chapters to the story. If so, someone needs to reassess the formula. This wasn't a movie that needed making.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : TIME Magazine
There's no denying that Pan is one ambitious fairy tale. But what's being labeled a "wholly original adventure" feels far from new, never mind necessary.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Sometimes murky and yet often magical.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The most cheering surprise of the season is "Pan."

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
This joyless, 10-megaton bomb fails in just about every imaginable way, as well as some you couldn't possibly imagine.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
Wright throws a lot of ideas at Pan, and not all of them stick, but it makes for a refreshingly imaginative experience, and one not afraid of inspiring a little fear in younger audiences alongside the scattergun wonder.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
Sometimes, classic stories don't benefit from re-imaginings or embellishments. Sometimes, it's not worth knowing what happened before the fun starts. Sometimes, such mysteries are best left alone.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
It appears all involved had a grand ol' time making Pan, the latest and loopiest retelling of the story of Peter Pan. Too bad for the audience, though.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
What was Wright aiming for here? No idea.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Passable adventure that offers the occasional flash of real cleverness.

Name : Bill Zwecker / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
This is a good film that will be enjoyed both by pre-teen children and the parents who likely will join them at the multiplexes around the country.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wright seems overwhelmed by the material, and he fails to make us care about any of the characters.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
This joyless, juiceless Pan is a theme-park ride from hell.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Was anyone clamoring for the story of how Hook and Peter came to be? Maybe, but they won't find it in "Pan," not really.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
There's a formula here to be studied for future movies. Just take whatever they did in "Pan" and do something else.

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
What it lacks in character development . Pan overcompensates for in style.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Ugly to look at, shrill to listen to, and performed by actors who have been encouraged to camp it up madly in the style usually favored by aging British sitcom stars playing storybook characters in Christmas panto productions.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Loud, chaotic action dominates this unnecessary prequel to Peter Pan.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
The official worst-ever Peter Pan film adaptation of any sort. And that includes "Hook."

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The film fulfills its limited mandate of providing fast-paced adventure and some nice eye candy without adding anything memorable to the tale of The Boy Who Can Fly.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The very idea behind Pan is ill-conceived. Who wants a prequel to Peter Pan?

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The noise you hear is J. M. Barrie turning over in his grave.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The actors all try hard to keep the energy up but never get convincingly in synch and, with the exception of Peter, the characters don't reasonably comport with one's pre-existing images of them.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For all the eye-popping effects and hyperkinetic action, there's no joyful innocence here. There's no sense of childlike wonder. Just a lifeless machine, dully ticking away like a clock in a crocodile's belly.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
The movie doesn't so much enhance our understanding of the flying boy as it demonstrates how little thought went into crafting his back story.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Stripping all whimsy and wonder from the Peter Pan story, Joe Wright's prequel is a busy, bungled bust.